Going on Vacation

Epohcj will be on holiday for about 4 weeks from today. For this time frame, there will not be any major update and no new albums or videos will be added to the site. I might still be blogging though to bring you the sights (not sure of sounds) of my trip back to naija. i promise when i come back enough jamming!!.

I hope you all have a nice holiday celebrations.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

We at EPOHCJ wants to take this opportunity to wish all our friends and visitors a Merry Christmas, a wonderful and fruitful new year. We hope that this new year will bring better things.

Nokia N96: Bad timing?

I don't know why the buzz about the new Nokia N97 didn't reach my ears. Just after i ordered the already in the market Nokia's flagship phone Nokia N96 that i got to hear about this new Monster device from Nokia. Nokia N97 features all the cool features from Nokia phones like GPS, Wifi, enough Internal Memory and option for expandable memory....etc.

Nokia N97

Nokia N96

And i love the full (QWERTY) keyboard which the Nokia Nseries phones lack. This phone is not yet in the market, it will be released sometime next year around June.
So, the question is should i return my Nokia N96 and maybe get a smaller and less expensive Nokia phone while i wait for this cool device or should stick with Nokia N96 and hopefully by the time the N97 comes out i will be ready to change my phone. I don't regret buying the phone but i always have to get the top of the brand.

Nokia n97

Nigerians sweep MAMA (MTV Africa Music Award)

Source: BBC

Nigerian artists dominated the MTV Africa Music Awards (the Mamas) on their own turf in the capital city Abuja, scooping six of the 10 awards.

D'banj won both the artist of the year award and the best male award, crowning a successful year for the self-proclaimed "entertainer".

Fellow Nigerian rapper Naeto C won best new act, while 9ice won the best Hip-hop award.

Kenyan singer Wahu, who was overcome with emotion, was named best female.

She tearfully dedicated the award to her husband, fellow musician Nameless, and to her daughter who, she said, "is to young to understand how much she inspires me".

Fusion
BBC 1Xtra's Trevor Nelson hosted the show in front of a crowd of 5,000 fans in the stylishly shaped Abuja Velodrome.

The Game performed at the ceremony

Nigerian duo P-Square, who had five nominations, only managed to take home one prize for best group.

Despite not winning, the disappointed twin brothers thrilled the crowd with their stage act.

South Africa hip-hoppers Jozi won the award for the best live performers.

However, Ghanaian artist Samini revealed he was not happy the live award had gone to a "group that plays CDs and mimes".

He added: "If you say 'live' then the music has to be with a band.

"I'm not picking names but I think that the best live performer should go to a live band artist.

"I'm sorry if I'm being harsh here but I'm trying to be straightforward. If I watch you on TV and I see you with a live band, then you better do it on stage for me."

There was a cameo appearance by US rapper The Game, who gave a brief medley of his hit songs.

There were also performances by the rapper's compatriots Flo-rida, and Kelly Rowland.

Other live acts included Seun Kuti, 9ice, as well as HHP from South Africa, but it was the assortment collaborations that stole the show.

HHP came back on stage to join Nigerian singing sensation Asa on her song Jailer, and Rowland performed alongside D'banj.

But the biggest fusion was that of South African rockers Cassette, Kenyan rapper Jua Cali, and Ikechukwu and Naeto C.

American R&B singer Alicia Keys gave a video acceptance speech for winning the best R&B award, as did South African band Seether, who won the best alternative award.

Mama Africa

The legend gong went to the late Fela Kuti, the Nigerian pioneer of Afrobeat. The award was received by the star's children, Yemi and Seun.

Kelly and Nigerian artist D'banj performed together

Speaking of Kuti, Nelson said: "He was the first man I ever heard, all the way from the UK, when I heard African music for the first time it came from this man.

"There could only be one person, only one recipient."

Kuti's children joked in their acceptance speech that they would "not take this award to him yet".

"We'll keep it in our house, and when the times comes then we'll take it to him."

Out of the 11 awards given out on the night the legend award was the only one that was not chosen by the fans.

Winners were selected by fans sending text messages.

There was also a tribute to "Mama Africa" Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who died just over a week ago.

Winners each received a Golden Microphone trophy, which has a futuristic microphone emerging from a globe of the world, with the African continent symbolically placed at the top of the world.

Even though this was an African event there were some non-African artists nominated in different categories, including Lil Wayne, The Game, Coldplay, and Keys.

African music videos were also recognized, with Nigeria's Ikechuku winning the award for the best video for his song Wind am well.

Congrats to everyone who got an awards....especially to my Naija artistes.

Blocking Irritating Adverts and Pop-ups.

Just a little tutorial on how to block certain ad sites that has irritating pop-ups.
On the need to stop pop-ups from disturbing my sisters while watching naija movies on OnlineNigeria, i came up with this simple idea to block the particular site/link/domain that serves the JavaScript that triggers the ad to pop-up on a user computer....this would apply to other sites that has annoying pop-ups.
This little hack will serve as a guideline for other users who might want to do similar thing to other sites that they visit often that serves pop-up.

This tutorial is for Windows OS.

>>> Open a notepad (for Vista users, run as admin)
>>> Browse to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
>>> Select "All files" in the file types drop-down
>>> Open "Hosts"
>>> Add the following lines to file


127.0.0.1 site.com

NB: site.com is the link the site that serves the add

For onlineNigeria users add

127.0.0.1 media.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 a.trialfusion.com

>>> Save the file and visit the site in question.


this should stop the pop-ups from popping up any how for the site.